Tariff Monitor

Tariffs on Imports From Malaysia

In 2025, U.S. importers brought in $14.4B of goods from Malaysia among retained top-source rows across 8 tracked family boards, carrying an effective calculated-duty rate of 3%, up from 0.51% the year before. Malaysia's largest tracked categories: semiconductors and integrated circuits, semiconductor and display equipment, switchgear, connectors, and controls. Tracked-family totals are a floor on total bilateral trade, from USITC DataWeb data.

The current reading

  • Tracked imports from Malaysia: $14.4B in 2025 across 8 manufacturing families, a floor on total bilateral trade.
  • Observed effective calculated-duty rate: 3% (0.51% the year before), reported Calculated Duties ÷ covered customs value.
  • History depth: 12 years of annual named-source boards.

Largest tracked families from Malaysia

  • Semiconductors and integrated circuits
  • Semiconductor and display equipment
  • Switchgear, connectors, and controls
  • Batteries and storage cells
  • Copper semi-finished products

Frequently asked questions

  • How much does the U.S. import from Malaysia? among retained top-source rows across 8 tracked manufacturing family boards, U.S. imports from Malaysia totaled $14.4B in customs value in 2025. That is a floor on total bilateral trade. It includes only tracked family boards where Malaysia appears among the retained largest sources.
  • What effective calculated-duty rate is observed for imports from Malaysia? In 2025, imports from Malaysia had an effective calculated-duty rate of 3% across tracked families. The rate is reported Calculated Duties divided by the customs value covered by those duty observations, which reflects the combined product, origin, preference and tariff mix in USITC's statistics. A year earlier the rate was 0.51%.
  • What does the U.S. import most from Malaysia? Among tracked manufacturing families, Malaysia's largest recent categories are semiconductors and integrated circuits, semiconductor and display equipment, switchgear, connectors, and controls, batteries and storage cells. Each has its own live rate page linked below.
  • Is the tariff burden on Malaysia rising or falling? Rising: the effective rate on tracked imports from Malaysia moved +2.5 points year over year to 3% in 2025. Monthly family-level detail is on each linked family page.

About this data

  • Reference statistics derived from USITC published data. Not a customs ruling. MFN-Free and Special-rate fields describe statutory line coverage only; final entry liability requires origin, date, eligibility, exclusions and other transaction facts. Calculated Duties are statistical estimates, not a cash-collections ledger. Confirm classification, origin, program eligibility, and final entry liability with a licensed customs broker.

Last reviewed 2026-08-31.